Genes, genetic variation, breeding and heredity in aquaculture

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Towards circular aquaculture

16 Nov 2020

Michael Laterveer, owner of Blue Linked – one of the few marine hatcheries in the Netherlands – believes that a fundamentally different approach is needed to ensure a sustainable future for aquaculture.

The Singaporean firm that aims to transform Asia's crayfish sector

26 Oct 2020

Desmond Chow, the founder of Singapore Crawfish, is so convinced that crayfish aquaculture is ripe for investment that he’s spent the past two years, and considerable amounts of his own capital, developing a range of cra…

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Trends in the specific pathogen-free shrimp trade revealed

9 Sep 2020

A new report into the global specific pathogen-free (SPF) L. vannamei broodstock market and production clusters has been published today.

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Fears over feminising antioxidants in fish feeds

14 Aug 2020

One of the world’s top tilapia hatcheries has traced a radical upturn in the proportion of female tilapia in their normally all-male stock back to changes in the antioxidants used by their feed provider.

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News

Seaweed biotech facility opens in New Zealand

19 Nov 2020

A brand-new aquaculture facility has been opened in the New Zealand port of Tauranga as part of a $13 million algal biotechnology research project.

India set to step up brackish water aquaculture production

10 Nov 2020

Plans to establish a hatchery to produce brackish water finfish species including Asian seabass, milkfish and pearl spot for on-growing by Indian aquaculture companies have been announced this week.

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Concerns over tilapia biodiversity

9 Nov 2020

A new study has revealed the scale of hybridization taking place between native and introduced tilapia in Tanzania.

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Swedes crack sea cucumber culture

2 Nov 2020

Scientists in Sweden have succeeded in cultivating red signal sea cucumbers as far as the juvenile stage in captivity for the first time.

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Indonesia set for a new shrimp breeding centre

19 Oct 2020

Plans to establish a shrimp broodstock multiplication centre in Indonesian have been announced by Hendrix Genetics today.

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Genetic selection

Size matters for salmon

5 May 2019

New research reveals that farmed male salmon are less attractive to females than their wild cousins, due to the fact tha…

Portugal seeks to establish sardine aquaculture sector

3 May 2019

The Portuguese government has backed plans to establish a sardine aquaculture industry, following the collapse of the sa…

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Investment firm acquires Center for Aquaculture Technologies

25 Apr 2019

The Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT) has been acquired by Cuna Del Mar (CDM), a US-based aquaculture investment…

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High hopes for new breed of grouper

24 Apr 2019

Malaysian scientists have developed a new breed of fish known as the echo grouper, which was created by backcrossing hyb…

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Species development

How a Filipino scientist is making headlines by culturing marine herbivores

28 May 2019

Optimising the production of marine herbivores, such as rabbitfish, suggests the huge potential of sustainable aquacultu…

Portugal seeks to establish sardine aquaculture sector

3 May 2019

The Portuguese government has backed plans to establish a sardine aquaculture industry, following the collapse of the sa…

High hopes for new breed of grouper

24 Apr 2019

Malaysian scientists have developed a new breed of fish known as the echo grouper, which was created by backcrossing hyb…

Meet the author: Largemouth Bass Aquaculture

17 Apr 2019

Jim Tidwell, author of the book Largemouth Bass Aquaculture, which is published by 5m books in April, explains the appea…

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Hatcheries

Brunei aims to establish massive barramundi sector

4 May 2019

Plans to establish an barramundi industry in Brunei that is capable of producing 36,000 tonnes of fish a year have been …

Is Norway set for a cod farming renaissance?

14 Mar 2019

The Norwegian cod farming industry is all set to step up a gear, according to one of Norway’s preeminent cod research ex…

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Seeding the future of Ghana’s tilapia sector

2 Mar 2019

A three-year project which aims to increase the productivity of the Ghanaian tilapia sector by 20 percent for cage and 1…

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Singaporean firm triples barramundi production

28 Feb 2019

Singapore’s largest barramundi farm has plans to triple its output, by investing $2 million (US $1.48 million) in its ha…